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Have more transparency. last, the programs will be more sustainable if, in fact, the american people have a sense, right, that were being candid and we are doing things in the way we say were going to do. were following very tight procedures but you cant get zero casualties. >> especially in your tenure as national security adviser, you supported and would speak openly about support for the drone strike program, and we should put that out there, that its necessary. youre saying people thought it...

Questions and its clearly a subject for intelligence and armed services committees and the entire congress. >> reporter: senator mccain referring to the fact that this focus on whether the cia should conduct this drone strike program really started to get going last week carol when it was revealed by the white house that two western hostages including that american warren weinstein were killed in that drone strike back in january, the president has ordered a review of that program and well see t...

People, but they say, look, the potential for errors means we should put a pause button on it, step back and look at how this is essentially death by metadata. >> there is another report in the "ap" today, four anonymous officials basically saying the u.s. is currently contemplating a targeted killing action against an american citizen. this story was strange to me for a number of reasons. one, why are they talking now? two, what is the purpose? three, it seemed to kind of bury the lead which is...

The extent that it has taken out people, but they say, look, the potential for errors means we should put a pause button on it, step back and look at how this is essentially death by metadata. >> there is another report in the "ap" today, four anonymous officials basically saying the u.s. is currently contemplating a targeted killing action against an american citizen. this story was strange to me for a number of reasons. one, why are they talking now? two, what is the purpose? three, it seemed ...

This could come back at home very, very quickly, not in a militarized drone strike. the president said hes against that. but using it to target individuals in the united states based on our cell phone. what if you lend your cell phone to someone else and you happen to be in yemen? you send your kid to the grocery store to pick up something and thats the moment the cia decides to strike. i mean, this is a system, and weve heard from insiders, chris, who have been a part of this and defend the pro...

We know he should die, if anything to get his groupies just in pure misery unless, and i agree with you, lets spare him but make his punishment sitting in a room 24/7 staring at the footage of the suffering victim. >> fine with me. fine with me. >> id castrate him, do whatever you need. >> you know what, bob. you dont make any sense here. youre going to castrate someone, put them in a room and you dont think thats cruel and unusual and putting someone to death in a humane way you think is -- is ...

They never ask for, you know, a raise. >> right. martha: so a lot of those things that could be, could make it very attractive to employers to replace with robots. >> thats true. health insurance as well. lots of different, and people, jobs wanting to cut down and save this is certainly one way but at the same time, these are things that arent happening right now. its happening gradually. it is not something that is going to just happen overnight. martha: keep our jobs at least for a little whil...

>> this administration seems like thats the way to enhancing security and its not. >> he promised full transparency, which he said would be a departure. >> the only way you can hold us accountable is if you know what we are doing. >> this week its revealed the obama administration allowed the nsa to collect phone records of millions of americans and monitor the online activities of people overseas and add that to the fact he expanded the drone strike program and is unable to close guantanamo and...

Peoples expectations when it comes to what you just described? >> i think it depends on where youre coming from. if youre somebody who thinks there should be more of an interventionist strategy, i think thats not quite what you got. what you got from this president was, something that was a defense of the use of drones, for example. how you would target even americans living abroad for the first time, admitting that they had killed an american abroad as has been widely reported. i think a lot of...

Going on. >> ben, theres also the question, i mean i think when we talk about sort of, how much we are at the beginning of this conversationing or maybe in the middle as far as u.s. counterterrorism policy post 9/11, one of the reasons i think this conversation hasnt happened is because of the sort of political realities, which is to say republicans have had a very hard time figuring out their position on this, right? i mean they dont, when forced to articulate a counterterrorism strategy thats ...